| RefNo | PT/1/i |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Fragment of notes following publication of 'A description of the anatomy of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Everard Home |
| Date | [1802] |
| Description | Subject: Ornithology
Manuscript notes describing new developments in Everard Home's research on anatomy of the ovaries of the female ornithorhynchus paradoxus after receiving specimens from Governor [Lachlan] MacQuarie and Sir John Jemison. Notes refer to the author in the third person but may be written by Home. Manuscript ends mid-sentence.
Notes refer to paper by Everard Home published in Volume 92 of Philosophical Transactions titled 'A description of the anatomy of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus'.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Arrangement | This fragment is found at the beginning of the volume, after the title page and before PT/1/1. |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0046 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1802.0006 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |